Gary Cahill's challenge was rash rather than reckless - but I don't see it being overturned

Gary Cahill was shown a straight red early on during Chelsea's clash with Burnley

The Premier League has got off to a good start, and so have the officials. The first weekend is never easy as you try to achieve a standard of consistency across the board but, on the whole, the referees have done well.

I don’t know when players will learn that by launching yourself into a tackle, without any control – as Gary Cahill did – you are giving the referee a decision to make. I personally would have given a yellow for that challenge because to my mind it was rash rather than reckless, but Craig decided it was worthy of a red, and I see no chance of it being overturned.

As for the second red card, Cesc Fabregas has no defence. His first yellow card, for sarcastically applauding the referee, cannot be disputed. His second, for an awful tackle, could have been a straight red card.

On the first weekend you would like to see a similar standard across the board where a dangerous tackle leads to a red card, and we did not see that in these two incidents. To reiterate, neither were incorrect decisions on their own, but put them together and it does look a little questionable.

There could be no justification for Jonjo Shelvey’s brainless stamp on Dele Alli. Andre did well to keep his eye on a situation that had the potential to lead to a flashpoint, and he acted accordingly when he spotted the stamp. It was undoubtedly the correct decision.

The weekend was bookended by two composed, intelligent performances from our two most experienced referees, Mike Dean and Martin Atkinson. Mike did very well in the Arsenal-Leicester game, with the only blot in his copybook the handball he missed by Mesut Ozil. It struck me as the type of error the video assistant referee would eliminate instantly and I hope we have the recourse to use that technology from next season. If we view the Premier League as the best in the world then we should be leading the way when it comes to technology – although that view is clearly not shared at the highest level.